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Press release: ‘Aggressive MRSA strain from the US can spread rapidly’

Leiden 30 June 2010 – In the Netherlands several cases of persons infected with a new MRSA strain, the so-called USA300 strain, have cropped up in recent years. It has come from America, where it rapidly spreads among healthy people in the community. “This representative of the multi-resistant hospital bacteria is more dangerous than those with which we are already familiar, and treatment is difficult", says professor of medical microbiology Jan Maarten van Dijl of the University of Groningen. Van Dijl is currently working with a team of investigators on an effective treatment of infections with all MRSA variants. Read more >>